Category: Politics
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Dallas Observing
I’ve been in Dallas for three weeks. Here are some cool spots I found so far Recycled Books in Denton A pretty big and cool bookstore. They have a comics, DVD and audio selection. I found some cool stuff there for good prices, including BSG season 1 for $20. El Rancho De Edith 112 E […]
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T.eabagging an E.xcercise in A.stroturfing
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – Th 11p / 10c Nationwide Tax Protests thedailyshow.com http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:224275 Daily Show Full Episodes Economic Crisis Political Humor My relatively neutral story for the Lode. A week ago, Taxed Enough Already Concerned Citizens of the UP gathered at the courthouse for a Tax Day demonstration in concert with […]
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We’ve been sacked!!!
Methinks that with all the news about pirates in the sea and bankers taking our money, we need Crimson Permanent Assurance scenario more than ever.
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ZOMG Amazon is phobez.
Apparently Amazon dropped the ratings of a large body of LGBT literature, causing a moral outrage and boycott among tech hippies. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say Amazon is not completely at fault. For years, the ratings community has been dominated by a cabal of uptight conservatives who rate books they disagree […]
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Reasons I’m moving to Texas
Warm Weather Parents live there Desis live there Jobs are there So I can annoy Betty Brown with my complicated name
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Action Office!!!
From Cracked: 6 Geniuses Who Saw Their Inventions Go Terribly Wrong #2.Robert Propst (1921-2000) Invented: Revolutionary open-landscape offices. Lived to See: The cubicle farm. EUREKA! While virtually unknown to the general public, designer Robert Propst’s ideas have shaped our world, especially our offices. While working for a furniture company in the 1960s, Propst studied the […]
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The Frequency is Courage
When I was in Dallas, I made it a mission to get comics since there are no dedicated comic stores in my area (If you think the Minnesota campuses of Faker and Nothing Better are desolate, you need to make the trip to the Upper Peninsula of Michgan). Among the various media I gorged on […]
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SIETCH #9 Women’s Week
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So Say We All!!!
Edward James Olmos talks about the idea of race in the UN in Battlestar Galactica retrospective conference. Post BSG, we need to realize that the world is in fact not Post Racial. Admiral Gaff was right on in saying that race was a construct of Caucasian dominance. It also harms Caucasians as much as any […]
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HD doesn’t mean anything if you don’t see color
http://static.escapistmagazine.com/media/global/movies/player/flowplayer.commercial-3.0.3.swf ZP:50 Cent Blood in the Sand (FAIL, dingo ate his baby) http://www.gametrailers.com/remote_wrap.php?mid=46773 HAWP:On Sexism(close, but not cigar) I maintain that talking about race and gender is impossible in current terms within the gaming community. The discussion seems to offer nothing but inane “color-blind” and “gender-blind” explanations about “moving on” that do nothing to address […]